Detention and deportation of noncriminal Haitians arriving from Mexico

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began detaining non-criminal Haitians who presented themselves at Mexico-US border crossings on September 22, 2016 and began twice-weekly deportations to Haiti of these detainees on November 3 and 8, 2016, despite the devastation wrought by hurricane Matthew a few weeks earlier. DHS is detaining as many as 4000 of these detainees throughout the United States in a few dozen facilities remote from available attorneys and interpreters and is deporting them to Haiti in violation of their rights at an estimated rate of about 270 per week. Among many other steps, IJDH has created the Haiti Deportations Response Network (HDRN) to recruit volunteer attorneys and interpreters to address the crisis. Relevant articles are below.